The 2020 Presidential Race

[spooled240]

Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree

I'll get you started: voting by mail requires levels of inspection that can result in good votes being tossed out. New York tossed 1.84% of mail-in ballots in the 2016 election, California 1.75%, Kansas 1.48%, Arizona 1.28%. This totaled 452,247 votes. The five states that are mail-in only didn't count 0.7-0.9% of their votes. Source.

The question, though, is whether or not that number extrapolates after a revamping of the mail-in systems in all states.

If someone is turned away from voting because they refuse to wear a mask, how long until that's capitalized upon by conservatives as voter suppression?

If you can stand in line 6 ft apart at Home Depot and do self-checkout, idk how that is much different than standing in line 6 ft apart at a voting location to vote at a machine. If crowdedness is an issue they can just extend Super Tuesday to a week or so since they were already expecting huge delays in the mail-in ballots. Maybe go in alphabetical order by day or something to cut down on the crowds. Mail is so archaic and an immense waste of paper. We're not living in 1920.

[SimpleS14]

Originally Posted by spooled240

If you can stand in line 6 ft apart at Home Depot and do self-checkout, idk how that is much different than standing in line 6 ft apart at a voting location to vote at a machine. If crowdedness is an issue they can just extend Super Tuesday to a week or so since they were already expecting huge delays in the mail-in ballots. Maybe go in alphabetical order by day or something to cut down on the crowds. Mail is so archaic and an immense waste of paper. We're not living in 1920.

The difference, IMO, is that there's less face to face human interaction at a Home Depot self-checkout and more working kiosks available to get people through quicker...at least compared to what I went through in my district. Also some states/districts have fewer polling locations open leading to longer lines.

Early voting, drop boxes and more polling locations might help.

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by SimpleS14

The difference, IMO, is that there's less face to face human interaction at a Home Depot self-checkout and more working kiosks available to get people through quicker...at least compared to what I went through in my district. Also some states/districts have fewer polling locations open leading to longer lines.

Early voting, drop boxes and more polling locations might help.

If it's so dangerous, let's just delay the election until a cure is found.

I mean think of the mail men and counters that will have to potentially touch millions of contaminated Ballots.